software development

TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round…

TruEra raises $25M for its AI analytics and monitoring platform

Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the future of this newsletter and what’s coming next. The short of which is that in…

Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

To get a look at how development agency Intent tailors its approach to client needs, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski, head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski.

For founders who want to launch apps, ‘being non-technical is not a limitation’

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6 technologists discuss how no-code tools are changing software development

To get a more in-depth look at the technical aspects of the space, we spoke to some of the technologists ushering in the no-code/low-code revolution.

2:35 pm PST • March 10, 2022
6 technologists discuss how no-code tools are changing software development

Continuous integration and delivery platform CircleCI today announced that it has acquired Ponicode, a Paris, France-based startup that helps developers automate their unit tests and track their overall test coverage.…

CircleCI acquires Ponicode

Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that the former head of payments at Instacart recently left the grocery delivery outfit for a new adventure. As it happens, Matthew Birnbaum, Instacart’s head…

Instacart’s head of talent just left to join Pear VC; here’s his take on the market

NeuraLegion, a startup that focuses on dynamic application security testing and identifying business logic issues, today announced that it has changed its name to Bright Security. In addition, the company…

NeuraLegion becomes Bright Security and raises $20M Series A

Meet Athenian, a new startup that analyzes your software delivery workflow and gives you insights. When companies adopt a tool like Athenian, they’re trying to find ways to ship new…

Athenian gives you metrics about your engineering team without focusing on individuals

OpsLevel, a startup that helps development teams organize and track their microservices in a centralized developer portal, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round.…

OpsLevel raises $15M to help developers manage their microservices

Tricentis, a well-funded enterprise-centric test automation platform, is on a bit of an acquisition spree these days. Last year, it acquired performance testing service Neotys. Earlier this month, the company…

Test automation platform Tricentis acquires Tx3 Services

Harness, the ML-enhanced software delivery platform helmed by AppDynamics co-founder Jyoti Bansal, is getting on the GitOps train. While the service started out with a focus on continuous delivery, it…

Harness brings GitOps to its software delivery platform

Relocating employees can involve up to 20-30 different complex processes, while many of the support packages on the market can be inflexible and expensive. Plus, relocating services are usually only…

PerchPeek raises $11M to woo ‘great resignation employees’ with easy relocation

In 2020, New Relic launched its New Relic One platform, its attempt to bring together the many point solutions the company had built over the course of the years under…

New Relic launches its new infrastructure monitoring experience

Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate.

Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

The idea behind the company was to get engineers back to spending the majority of their time designing and building hardware products.

AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

Codenotary, a service that makes it easier for development teams to build transparent software supply chains (and also the company behind the popular open source immudb immutable database), today announced…

Codenotary raises $12.5M Series B to secure software supply chains

Robust Intelligence, an AI startup that helps businesses stress test their AI models and prevent them from failing, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding…

Robust Intelligence raises $30M Series B to stress test AI models
Startups

Vercel acquires Turborepo

5:00 am PST • December 9, 2021

Vercel, the well-funded front-end development platform from the team behind Next.js, today announced that it has acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, an increasingly popular…

Vercel acquires Turborepo

AWS today announced a new service that makes it easier for its users to detect, diagnose and resolve issues in their relational databases. DevOps Guru for RDS, AWS’s fully managed…

AWS launches a new tool for diagnosing and fixing database issues in its cloud

The semiconductor shortage is going to continue to cause disruptions, so it is up to businesses to make changes now to set up their organizations as future-proof.

Developers and designers can help businesses manage the semiconductor shortage

Cycode, a startup that helps businesses secure their DevOps pipelines and software supply chains, today announced that it has raised a $56 million Series B funding round led by Insight…

Cycode raises $56M Series B to help secure software supply chains

Bitrise is meant to support developers who are busy running processes rather than creating new value for customers.

Bitrise grabs $60M to keep companies updated with constantly changing mobile requirements

If your IVP is your presentation of unbaked pepperoni pizza, your MVP is when you present a can of sauce, a package of cheese, a Slim Jim and a pencil…

Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product

Cortex, a startup that helps engineering teams get improved visibility into the Rube Goldberg machine that is their microservices architecture and improve their overall development practices around it, today announced…

Cortex raises $15M Series A to help development teams wrangle their microservices

As remote teams, we need to communicate more, and when it comes to mental health, it’s better to say something and find out someone is fine than have them reach…

5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software…

Propelo raises $12M for its AI-driven engineering excellence platform

GitHub gets a new CEO

8:10 am PDT • November 3, 2021

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service. Thomas Dohmke, who only recently became GitHub’s chief…

GitHub gets a new CEO

Azure gets a Chaos Studio

8:00 am PDT • November 2, 2021

Resorting to chaos may not sound like a sound engineering method, but chaos engineering is quickly becoming a standard way to test complex systems before real-world outages put those systems…

Azure gets a Chaos Studio

Arbisoft is the latest addition to our series profiling startup software consultants. Its CEO Yasser Bashir shared thoughts on agile development, data science, customer and employee satisfaction, etc.

Arbisoft co-founder Yasser Bashir on building trust with early-stage startups

Google today announced a new feature for its AppSheet automation service that will allow developers on its no-code platform to create custom apps and automation that can interact directly with…

Google brings AppSheet automations to Gmail, Jira support to Chat and Spaces